Davis Wiki1 held its first fundraiser called Davis Wiki Wacky Woo 1. The fundraisering spanned from Friday to Sunday, with the main event being a major party at the Turtle House on Saturday that started at 7PM and went until some time around 11 — the Davis Wiki Wacky Woo!

Our goal: To raise $3500!

If you couldn't make it to the Davis Wiki Wacky Woo but would like to support us, you can donate online via PayPal (using Debit/Credit card or a PayPal account) — see the Donate page. You can also make a check out to "Davis Wiki" and mail it to P.O. Box 873, Davis, CA, 95617-0873. If you're donating via check and not in person, please let us know via an email (daviswiki@gmail.com how much you pledged so we can keep track of everything. The donate page also featured a month-by-month breakdown of expenses.

Prizes & Freebies

To encourage donations we were giving out prizes for donations, when we could. Some items were auctioned in a silent auction, and others were general prizes given for donations (in sort of a "grab bag" style). In our inventory and available to you if you came to the Davis Wiki Wacky Woo and made a donation, were:

Who's in charge of the fundraiser?

Survey

Allison is using this as her service learning project for a class. Please take her survey to help fulfill her research requirement.

Shirts

We have 7 remaining "I (bike circle) davis" shirts: 4 x L, 3 x M. We have 15 fully-awesome hand screen-printed shirts (shirts donated from AlphaDog) and materials to print more provided we get some more blank shirts, and two possibly cool shirts (depending on tolerance ;) Given more shirts, we can print more. Definite shirt total: 22.

Selecting Board of Directors

In the process of opening a bank account we wrote bylaws. As stated, we're going to select the board of directors at some point during the fundraiser. For more information, see the bylaws page & the talk page. If you're interested in helping the wiki out for the next year and taking an active role in the organization as a whole, please consider being on the board. If you're interested but won't be there at the time, just make a note on this page. Location for discussion and selection: Sunday at 8PM at Mishka's Cafe in the frontish table area. (Note: you can come to simply help the discussion out and have a say in what happens)

Comments:

This comes very late in the game, but might be useful for future events. It being summer, hacky sack is a pretty fun way to not think about the heat, and hacky sacks can be crocheted/knitted! They also very conveniently mirror the shape of the wiki logo. I don't have a pattern with the wiki logo, but perhaps some very fast wiki knitters might be able to create a few for giveaways. Hacky sacks are also good for tossing into crowds... no tshirt cannon needed.

To Absent Friends! While we, as Davis Exiles, can't make it this time, we wish the best to all! (We actually considered going, but figured if we had anywhere near plane fare we should just donate it... and then the car died). We chipped in the pot, and raised a toast to all those involved in the fundraiser. Best of luck and enjoy the evening! — Sarah and JabberWokky

Footnotes

1. More accurately: The set of wikis that run together and pool resources alongside Davis Wiki. Davis Wiki is the largest such project and individuals involved with Davis Wiki have made all important purchases thus far.